Word: kenya
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Even if ramidus didn't walk upright, however, another of the recently discovered human ancestors certainly did. Less than a year after A. ramidus made headlines, a team led by Meave Leakey of the National Museums of Kenya (wife of well-known fossil hunter Richard Leakey) and Alan Walker of Pennsylvania State University revealed that it too had found fossils of an ancient human ancestor at two sites near Lake Turkana, in Kenya. Not only is the new hominid very old, dating to 4.2 million years B.P., but it is similar in some ways to A. afarensis--though clearly more...
Then, in 1994 and 1995, teams working in Ethiopia and Kenya announced that they had each found a new species of hominid. Both discoveries smashed the 4 million-year barrier. The first--and at 4.4 million years, the oldest--was dug up by an international team in the Middle Awash region of Ethiopia, about 50 miles south of where Lucy was discovered...
...more than 5 million years old, though he refuses to elaborate before detailed studies are completed. But Leakey and Walker readily acknowledge that they are studying two 5.5 million-year-old hominid teeth and a similarly ancient jaw fragment with an embedded tooth from a site in northern Kenya. "They look like australopithecines with lots of primitive features," Walker says, but there isn't enough evidence from these fossils alone to claim a new species...
...FIRST DISCOVERED] Kanapoi, Kenya...
...strict environmentalists, ecotourism may be "a widely abused term which doesn't mean much anymore," in the words of Richard Leakey, director of Kenya's Wildlife Service. Certainly, having Masai Mara guides using two-way radios to speed the search for lions hardly seems in the spirit of noninvasive touring. But for all that, most critics concede that ecotourism is less invasive than forestry, mining and other forms of development. As Luis Roman, a Peruvian anthropologist working with the Matsiguenkas, observes, "To be successful with a venture like this, you need planning to make sure you don't overload...